The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-28
THE lIlNGO STRIKE
sETrnrp ON SATURDAY. NIGHT
ny the Company Recognising the AmnIgn.
nationwide Terms Of the Agreement.
f What Secretary Martin Has to shy
Now About bailey of tho Il. l..

The trouble nt Mingo, 90 far as the
strike Of the men employed in the steel
plant Of the Laughlin and Junction Com.
pnny 10 concerned, sat an end, and work
will be resumed thin morning; MI tho do.
partments will go on full. Tho Laughlin
nail mill at Martins Ferry and the juno.
ton, at Mingo, will probably got sulll'
Gent amount Of steel to enable them to
resume work by tho end Of the week
They have been forced to remain idle on
account OF tho strike st the atcol plant,
which hiss been far-reaching In itH effects,
Tho news that work Is to DO resumed will
be welcomed in many household. !
How tho trouble between the Knighte
Of Labor and the Amalgsmated Ansocla-
ton tina. has grown out Of this heven
weeks strike was settled is not ye!
known. The settlement Of the strike
was effected by the company, sec.
ing that the X. OF L. officials were
not able to start up the plant as they
promised to do, recognizing the Amslga.
mated Association. A conference OF the
company's representatives and President
Weihe, Secretary Martin and others OF the
Amalgamation was held Saturday evening,
at which the following was drawn up and
signed: g, 49,. III. 49, +.
AT a conference held this day between
VIM. Weihe, President; VIM. Martin,
Secretary. and other gentlemen represent.
ing A. A. I. and s. W., and W. L. Gless.
ner, President, and II. NJ. Priest, repre-.
senting the Laughlin and junction Steel
Company, 1t was agreed on the part Of
both organizations that the contract and
rules entered into by the Laughlin and
Junction Steel Company aud Knights oil
Labor, January 10, 1887, should be en-.
forced and obtain, during the year 1887.
1t was further agreed that il mechanical
breakagas occur in tho operation OF the
plant, and the company requests the men
10 remain pending q repair, the men shall
BIO paid as the men at the steel plant Of the
Beliaite Nail Company are paid. 1t was
further sgreed tbatin the operation OF the
j. and J. steel plant, the A. A. I. aud S.
W. ahall not attempt to control the distri.
button OF the product of the steel plant,
unless to such mills where their organiza.
ton exists and is on strike by orders Of
executive officers Of eaid A. A. l. and S.
W. l-'- -.
Signed-Will;am Weihe, President A. A.
OF l. and s. w; William Martin, Secre.
tary; W. L. Glessner. President Laugh.
lin and Junction Steel Company; II. M.
Priest, Thomas Brettell, George II.
Sweeney, Alfred Price, Committee oil
Mingo Lodge No. a2, Ohio, A. A. Of I.
and S. W." 5,
Secretary Martin, Of the Amalgamated
Association, says the settlements great
victory for his Association, as it is distinct
ly Understood between the parties to the
contract that the Anlslgsmated Aesocia.
ton will be recognized as having jurisiic.
ton in the plant. The Association, how.
ever, ia not to control the distribution Of
the product OF the steel plant unless to
such MILLS where there is legslizsd strike
Of their organization.
Secretary Martin, in q lengthy dispatch
he sent to the Pittsburgh Dispatch Satur.
day night from Steubenvillo after the con.
ference had been held, said OF w. Fl,
Bailey OF the Executive Board OF the K,
iof l. who was the chief one On that side
in the bitter struggle, tho following:
we hsve met the arch enemy Of trades
unicnism in America and vanquished him.
In Saying this we do not wish to be under.
stood as having any antipathy toward
the K. Of L. We know the rank and file
OF that noble organization DO not approve
OF Mr.. Bailey'a hatred for, and his defiant
and urderhanded methods Of conducting
en unwarranted attack on trades unions.
The song that the nightingale will sing
this morning to the four or five poor dupes
he is expected to bring from Johnstown,
will fail to soothe their sorrowing, when
they know that their chance to scab' has
been quietly enatched from them. The
Amalgamated Association never crows
over winning victory, but on this auspi-
cious and memorable occasion We feel that
the people at large every where will Join
us in singing the doxology." 81